India, March 4 -- An HR professional recently shared a baffling first-day encounter with a new hire. After waiting two long months for a top candidate to join, the entire recruitment process collapsed within hours over a single piece of hardware: the company laptop. HR claimed the hire wanted to use his personal laptop instead of the one provided by the company. She explained that she thinks it was because he didn't resign from his current position and was moonlighting with the second job.

"I hired someone for a role. Waited 2 months for him to resume. Day 1, onboarding started and the moment I mentioned he would be assigned a work laptop, his whole mood changed. He tried to talk me into using his personal laptop instead. I told him it's...